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TomDavidson
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...and it's illness.

Whenever Sophie gets sick, she always leaps through major milestones immediately thereafter. She's had a croupy-sounding cough and a high fever for the last two days, which has left her lethargic and cranky. So we broke down and gave her some Tylenol a few hours ago.

Since then, she's played and sung along with the piano, stacked three blocks, said her first word ("Kaboom!" Seriously. Don't ask.), and -- most impressively -- walked three steps.

So I think it's something about the bacteria....

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quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:
said her first word ("Kaboom!" Seriously. Don't ask.)

[ROFL] [Laugh]
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TomDavidson
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Whenever Christy would stack blocks with Sophie and the blocks would fall down, Christy would exclaim "Kaboom!" Sophie has now taken to stacking blocks -- or letting me stack them -- and then whacking them with a mean backhand, tossing them across the room with a clatter. And afterwards, she claps gleefully and says "Kaboom!"

Although she accents the wrong syllable; it comes out "KAH-boom" rather than "ka-BOOM." But that just makes it cuter. *laugh*

She's been signing for milk, food, and drink for a while now. (The sign for milk also means "Mommy, pay attention to me!")

Other words she's been working on include:
Duck ("Dud-kuh")
Book ("Buk") (coupled with holding a book up for reading)
Kiss ("Mmmuh") (the sound of kissing)

("Ma-ma" and "da-da" have been around for a while, but I can't count those since "ma-ma" also means "I need something" and "da-da" means "that's interesting.")

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eyetell
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That may be truer then you think. Just think about it, in order for man to fix a polluted city, they must have an epidemic and find a vaccine. We must go through trials to mature, and many other things. Y can't the inner parts of our body be the same?
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Interesting. I almost never got sick when I was growing up, and....

Um....

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Papa Moose
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Actually, Superstation has only two words at this point. "A-da" (possibly an attempt at "all done"), which basically means "verb," and "Da-da," which means "noun." Highly nuanced words, it seems, since Mama and I usually know exactly what he means.
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Bob_Scopatz
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Um...you've made up for it ever since?
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Telperion the Silver
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[Smile]
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eyetell
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wow....
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eyetell
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wow....
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Tante Shvester
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Maybe it's not the illness.

Maybe it's the Tylenol.

<goes off to dose kid with enough Tylenol to ensure a merit scholarship>

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mackillian
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[ROFL]

KABOOM!

[Big Grin]

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Bob_Scopatz
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When I was little, if one of us got sick, mom made sure we all caught it together. Now I know why. She wanted us to be equally smart. And all this time I thought she just assumed we'd catch it anyway and it was easier to have us all sick at the same time.

Thanks for the theory Tom. It actually might have some merit. Especially if a fever is involved.

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Um, Bob? How did she manage to get you all sick? I mean, it usually happens anyway, but that is some trick.
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Well, shoot, you shove all the kids in the same bed and yell at them to NOT cover their mouths when they cough. Worked like a charm.

[Wink]

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And if that didn't work, she'd have us swap blood or bite each other.
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I might be misremembering this. I had a fever at the time.
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This reminds me of a very funny encounter I recently had with my advisor's two-year-old (hereafter: Boy Genius).

Boy Genius seemed to be very fond of saying "Honey ducky ducky ducky ducky ducky..." etc. I asked his mom (my advisor's wife) why he was saying that, and she replied that Boy Genius is a big fan of Winnie the Pooh. Instead of saying "Hundred Acre Wood," he's taken to saying "Honey Ducky Wood."

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Glenn Arnold
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I've heard stories about way back when, when one kids got chicken pox, they sent all the kids in the neighborhood over to his house to play.

I don't think they encouraged biting or fluid swapping though.

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Biting and fluid swapping was encouraged where we lived. [Dont Know]
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Boy do I wish I could find the OOC thread, quid.
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Shan
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Friends STILL call friends when their child has chicken pox and they know their friend's child hasn't yet . . . *grin*
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Yep, I tried that. A friend brought over her poxy sons, had them drink from my kids cups, roll in their beds, and when one had a poopy go down his leg she showered him and rubbed him down with every one of my towels. And not one of my kids got it. They are waiting until it's least convenient.
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I had it twice! [Mad]

Has anyone ELSE seen the South Park episode about that particular parental idea regarding chicken pox?

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